So, yesterday I was watching and learned that a number of people were awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Many of the recipients were well deserved, including outgoing Federal Reserve chair Alan Greenspan. Then I remembered one of the last people to be awarded the Medal, CIA Director George “Slam Dunk” Tenet. Last month I wrote about the 16 words in the State of the Union that triggered the entire Wilson-Plame scandal, and how the CIA warned the white House not to use the statement in the speech.

However, as we all know he did anyway, and somehow after the revelations of Joe Wilson, the man they claim to be motivated by politics although funny how he was right, George Tenet and the CIA took the blame. I’ve thought about this a number of times, and every time I think about it, I can’t help but ask myself, did Tenet take the bullet for the White House. If the CIA was so wrong and Tenet caused Bush all of this trouble why award him the Medal? Now, at the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist I think it’s more than possible that the medal was given to George as a way of saying thank you for taking all the heat.